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In 1998, at age 38, she died in her sleep during an epileptic seizure caused by a birth defect. Griffith Joyner is buried at the El Toro Memorial Park in Lake Forest. Early life.
On Sept. 21, 1998, Griffith-Joyner died in her sleep in Mission Viejo, California, at the age of 38. The Orange County Coroner’s Office ruled the cause of death to be suffocation during an epileptic seizure. The autopsy uncovered a congenital vascular brain abnormality believed to be connected to seizures she began experiencing in 1990.
In 1998, a mere 10 years after her Olympic dominance, she suffered an epileptic seizure in her sleep and suffocated. As World Athletics says, she had an extremely rare condition called "cavernous angioma" borne by a mere 0.25% of the population, which causes blood to fill spaces around blood vessels in the brain and spinal column.
The seizure apparently struck during sleep, causing Griffith Joyner's limbs to tense. It possibly wrenched her head to the right as she lay on her stomach, said Dr. Richard Fukumoto, chief of forensics for the Orange County sheriff and coroner.
The Olympic sprint champion Florence Griffith Joyner died of suffocation a month ago after suffering a seizure while she slept, medical authorities said yesterday in southern California.
A post-mortem into the death of the American sprinter, Florence Griffith-Joyner, has concluded that she died from suffocation during an epileptic fit. Her sudden death last month led to renewed...
Olympic sprint champion Florence Griffith Joyner died after suffering an epileptic seizure, according to autopsy results released Thursday, and her family and friends say they hope the findings...
Olympic sprint champion Florence Griffith Joyner suffocated from an epileptic seizure in her sleep last month, authorities said Thursday.
Griffith Joyner, 38, suffocated Sept. 21 at her home in Mission Viejo, Calif., after suffering an epileptic seizure, according to Richard Fukumoto, chief forensic pathologist of the Orange County...
Florence Griffith Joyner, triple gold medalist at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, has died at the age of 38. The American sprinter apparently suffered a heart seizure at her home in Mission Viejo,...